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Agency

William Gibson

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#5393 of 8,085 books · #1126 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2021).

Agency won the New York Times bestseller list and was a New York Times bestseller. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it's best they don't. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can't: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it.

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101986950
Topics
Artificial intelligenceTime travel/alternate timelinesTechnology and society

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